{"id":4716,"date":"2018-04-22T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4716"},"modified":"2018-04-18T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:23:57","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-gods-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4716","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on God&#8217;s Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"vc01\" data-offset-key=\"8c0ml-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8c0ml-0-0\">&#8220;Christ loves the child and will do whatever is good for him. If He sees that the child will become better when he grows up, He will hear my prayer. But if He sees that Illness the child will not be in a good spiritual condition later on, then, because He loves him, He will take the child.\u201d \u201cAsk, and it shall be given you,\u201d But God will give an answer to my prayer if I am already given to God; otherwise why should He give me life &#8211; just to go astray? Whether a sick person lives or dies, I still rejoice for the opportunity to pray for him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"vc01\" data-offset-key=\"837o4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"837o4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"837o4-0-0\">&#8211; &#8216;Family Life&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"837o4-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4717\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39905fb40b41824c0a4b7c19fee28ae0-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39905fb40b41824c0a4b7c19fee28ae0-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39905fb40b41824c0a4b7c19fee28ae0.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christ loves the child and will do whatever is good for him. If He sees that the child will become better when he grows up, He will hear my prayer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4716\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}